John Gal is associate professor and Dean at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest include social policy in Israel and in a comparative perspective, and policy practice. Recent books include a study on income maintenance in Israel, a study of the history of unemployment policy in Israel , an edited volume on access to social justice (with Mimi Ajzenstadt) and Professional Ideologies and Preferences in Social Work: A Global Study with Idit Weiss and John Dixon.